Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 15

Indian Idol
Season 15
Promotional poster featuring the judges, Badshah, Ghoshal and Dadlani.
Hosted by	Aditya Narayan Pawandeep Rajan (guest) Mohd. Danish (guest)
Judges	Badshah Shreya Ghoshal Vishal Dadlani Neeti Mohan (guest)
No. of contestants	16
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television
Original release	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) – present
Season chronology

The fifteenth season of Indian Idol is set to premiere in late 2024, on the Sony Entertainment Television. After being replaced for an year, Aditya Narayan returned as host; Shreya Ghoshal, Vishal Dadlani returned as judges with Badshah replacing Kumar Sanu.

Auditions

Remote auditions took place from 18 August to 31 August, 2023, as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these, the producers selected the contestants who were then invited to audition in front of the judges.

Indian Idol (season 15) – regional auditions

City	Audition Date	Venue
Kolkata, West Bengal	18 August 2023	P.B. Academic School
Guwahati, Assam	20 August 2024	Nerim Group of Institutions
Noida, Uttar Pradesh	25 August 2024	JBM Global School
Mumbai, Maharashtra	31 August 2024	Pawar Public School

Filming does not take place until the judges' audition round. The year, the auditions were filmed at the Mukesh Mills warehouse.

To mark 20 years of Indian Idol, the platinum mic was introduced that guarantees the contestant a position in Top 15. Each judge could give only 1 platinum mic. Golden tickets were continued, and were given 31 in total, but the golden mic was discontinued. The platinum mics were given to Srijan Porail, Mayuri Saha and Sneha Shankar by Dadlani, Ghoshal and Badshah respectively.

Also, during the judges' audition, the traditional "sticker" of contestant's serial number was replaced with a new "identity card" as shown in the promo.This season the judges were also given headphones to hear the raw voice of singers, without any instruments and processing.

Theatre round

The Theatre round featured the top 31 golden ticket holder contestants performing for the judges. This round was filmed on X, at the Lata Mangeshkar Auditorium, and aired on 9 and 10 November 2024. The judges then narrowed the number of contestants down to 15, including the platinum mic holders.

This year the contestants performed in batches, as picked by the judges according to genre. The batch maybe of two, three or even one and their fate depends on the judges' verdict.

Neeti Mohan served as the guest judge and mentor in absence of Badshah, and Pawandeep Rajan and Mohd. Danish served as guest hosts in absence of Aditya Narayan.

The following is a list of the contestants and the song they performed. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.

Color key:

This contestant advanced to top 15.

This contestant was eliminated.

Day 1 (9 November) Contestant Batch No. Song Result Shuja Gowhar 1 "Kurbaan Hua" Elimimated Lakshya Mehta "Bekhayali" Eliminated Subhajit Chakraborty 2 "Surili Akhiyon Wale" & "Majhi Re" Safe Radha Shrivastava "Main Aayi Hoon U.P. Bihar Lootne" Eliminated Chaitanya Devade "Khel Mandala" & "Malhari" Safe Saloni Saaz 3 "Mere Maula Karam Ho Karam" Eliminated Ranjini Sen Gupta 4 "Achha Ji Main Haari Chalo" Safe Neha Dixit "Bahon Mein Chale Aao" Eliminated Jyotiprakash Ojha 5 "Albela Sajan Aayo Re" Safe Ritika Raj 6 "Paan Khaye Saiyan Hamarao" Safe Prativa Dutta "Agar Tum Sath Ho" Eliminated Ipsit Pati 7 "Janam Janam" Safe Vastav Kumar 8 "Oopar Khuda Aasman Neeche" Safe Mansi Sisodiya "Sajdaa" Eliminated

Day 2 (10 November) Contestant Batch No. Song Result Biswarup Banerjee 1 "Satrangi Re" Safe Priyangshu Dutta "Tadap Tadap" Safe Ayushman Chaudhary 2 "Satranga" Elimimated Sudhanshu Khare "Sajni Re" Eliminated Myscmme Bosu 3 "Silsila Ye Chahat Diya" Safe Manasi Ghosh "Aa Zara" Safe Dilraj Singh 4 "Main Nikla Gaddi Leke" Elimimated Haarshita Medhi 5 "Daiya Yeh Main Kaha Phasi" Elimimated Ragini Shinde "Bada Dukh Dina O Ramji" Elimimated Poushali Bhattacharya 6 "Jawani Janeman" Elimimated Inayat Bajaj Kaur "Girls Like To Swing" Eliminated Anirudh Suswaram 7 "Soona Soona" Safe Vishnumaya Ramesh 8 "Kehna Hi Kya" Eliminated Kritwika Chakraborty "Pyar Hua Chupke Se" Eliminated Tajinder Singh 9 "Vida Karo" Eliminated Manav Heera Not Telecasted Eliminated Abid Khan Langa Elimimated

Top 16 contestants

The contestant who made past the theater round or got the platinum mic in the auditions, are listed below as follows:

Contestant	Age	From	Status
Srijan Porail	21	Howrah, West Bengal	Participating
Mayuri Saha	27	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Sneha Shankar	18	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Participating
Subhajit Chakraborty	21	Kharagpur, West Bengal	Participating
Chaitanya Devadhe	18	Pune, Maharashtra	Participating
Ranjini Sen Gupta	24	Kolkata, West Bangal	Participating
Jyotiprakash Ojha	24	Cuttack, Odisha	Participating
Vastav Kumar	20	Gurdaspur, Punjab	Participating
Ipsit Pati	22	Bhubaneswar, Odisha	Participating
Ritika Raj	26	Patna, Bihar	Participating
Priyangshu Dutta	21	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Biswarup Banerjee	29	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Myscmme Bosu	22	Guwahati, Assam	Participating
Manasi Ghosh	24	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Anirudh Suswaram	29	Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh	Participating
Ragini Shinde	15	Aurangabad, Maharashtra	Participating

Gala rounds

After the theater round, every week all the contestants performing in the gala and are eliminated on a weekly basis.

The gala rounds were filmed at the Filmistan Studio.

Colour Key:

This contestant was saved by the judges' scores.

This contestant was saved by the India's votes.

This contestant was eliminated.

This contestant won Indian Idol.

This contestant was the runner-up.

This contestant finished in third place.

Gala 1 : Top 16 – Grand Premiere

Special guests: Usha Mangeshkar, Sanjeev Kapoor, Manoj Tiwari, Asees Kaur, Goldie Sohel, Bhagyashree, Arjun Kanungo, Divyansh Kacholia, Sanjay B Jumani, Kunal Ganjawala

Ragini Shinde, who was eliminated in the theatre round, when Badhshah was absent, joined as wild card contestant in Gala 1, on request of Badshah, to make it Top 16.

There was no public voting this week and the performance did not count in the competition. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.

Top 16 (16–17 November)

Contestant	Song
Mayuri Saha	"Ami Je Tomar 3.0"
Srijan Porail	"O Meri Jaan"
Ritika Raj	"Cham Cham Nachdi Phiran"
Vastav Kumar	"Afreen Afreen"
Ranjini Sen Gupta	"O Meri Maina, Tu Maan Le Mera Kehna"
Myscmme Bosu	"Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum"
Anirudh Suswaram	"Srivalli" and "Dil Se"
Ipsit Pati	"Bachna Ae Haseeno"
Manasi Ghosh	"Gun Gun Guna"
Priyangshu Dutta	"Kalank - Title Track"
Chaitanya Devadhe	"Ramta Jogi" and "Jhingat"
Sneha Shankar	"Yaad Piya Ki Aaye"
Ragini Shinde	"Tumko Piya Dil Diya" and "Main Chali Main Chali"
Subhajit Chakraborty	"Maya Lagaise" and "Jag Ghoomeya"
Biswarup Banerjee	"Saathiya"
Jyotiprakash Ojha	"Laga Chunari Me Daag"

Gala 2 : Top 16

This week was divided into two themes, dedicated to directors Subhash Ghai and Mahesh Bhatt. The above said were the special guests and guest mentor for respective nights. The contestants performed on the songs which were in the films directed by them, in the two nights respectively, and this week was the first public voting week of the season.

Shreya Ghoshal was absent this week, due to her live show tour.

Top 16 (23–24 November)

Contestant	Performed on	Song
Manasi Ghosh	Night 1 – An Evening With Subhash Ghai	"Yeh Dil Deewana"
Jyotiprakash Ojha		"One Two Ka Four"
Myscmme Bosu		"Kahin Aag Lage" & "Taal Se Taal"
Ragini Shinde		"Koi Rok Sake To Rok Le"
Ranjini Sen Gupta		"Kitni Baatein"
Ritika Raj		"Lambi Judai"
Vastav Kumar		"Wo Kisna Hai"
Ipsit Pati		"Ek Haseena Thi"
Subhajit Chakraborty	Night 2 – A Night of Nostalgia with Mahesh Bhatt	"Saanson Ki Jarurat Hai Jaise" & "Je Jon Premer Vab Jane Na"
Priyangshu Dutta		"Khamoshiyan"
Biswarup Banerjee		"Bepanah" & "Chale Aaye"
Chaitanya Devadhe		"Mann Ki Lagan"
Mayuri Saha		"Gali Mein Aaj Chaand Nikala" & "Ghunghat Ki Aad Se Dilbar Ka"
Srijan Porail		"Dil Ibaadat"
Sneha Shankar		"Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho"
Anirudh Suswaram		"Tum Mile" & "Roop Suhana Lagta Hai"

Gala 3 : Top 16

This week was the first judges' score week and the first elimination took place on basis of last week's votes and this week's scores.

The special guests for first night were Fardeen Khan, his sister Laila Khan Furniturewala and Zeenat Aman celebrating Feroz Khan, and Nana Patekar for the second night. All the contestants performed on the songs of Feroz Khan and/or Nana Patekar. And Vishal Dadlani was absent for this week.

Contestants are listed in the order they performed.

Top 16 (30 November–1 December)

Contestant	Performed on	Song	Result (Gala 2+3)
Subhajit Chakraborty	Night 1 – Fearless Feroz	"Tere Chehre Men Woh Jadoo Hai"	Safe
Chaitanya Devadhe		"Kambakkht Ishq"	Safe
Manasi Ghosh		"Dum Maro Dum"	Safe
Mayuri Saha		"Do Lafzon Ki Hai"	Safe
Ranjini Sen Gupta		"Aap Jaisa Koi" & "Laila O Laila"	Safe
Ragini Shinde		"Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko"
Jyotiprakash Ojha		"Hum Tumhen Chahte Hain" & "Aakhir Tumhe Aana Hai"	Safe
Biswarup Banerjee		"Do Pyar Karne Wale" & "Jo Tumko Hopasand Wohi Baat Karenge"	Safe
Srijan Porail	Night 2 – Bebak Nana		Safe
Ritika Raj
Vastav Kumar			Safe
Myscmme Bosu
Anirudh Suswaram			Safe
Ipsit Pati			Safe
Priyangshu Dutta		"Naina"
Sneha Shankar			Safe

Elimination chart

Like last season, this season too, bi-weekly eliminations were held. One week public votes, next week, judges' scores. The bottom contestants are decided according to the judges' scores from that week, and the person with lowest votes from last week is eliminated.

  Winner

  Runner-up

  Third place

  Did not perform

  Wild Card

  Saved by the judges scores from this week

  Saved by the public votes from last week

  Eliminated

Indian Idol season 15 – Eliminations

Contestant	Pl.	Top 34		Top 16	Top 16	Top 15
		Theatre		Gala 1	Gala 2+3	Gala 4+5
		9/11	10/11	16/11–17/11	23/11–1/12	7/12–15/12
Srijan Porail		N/A	N/A	No Voting
Mayuri Saha		N/A	N/A
Sneha Shankar		N/A	N/A
Subhajit Chakraborty		Safe	N/A
Chaitanya Devadhe		Safe	N/A
Jyotiprakash Ojha		Safe	N/A
Vastav Kumar		Safe	N/A
Ranjini Sen Gupta		Safe	N/A
Ipsit Pati		Safe	N/A
Ritika Raj		Safe	N/A
Anirudh Suswaram		N/A	Safe
Manasi Ghosh		N/A	Safe
Priyangshu Dutta		N/A	Safe
Myscmme Bosu		N/A	Safe
Biswarup Banerjee		N/A	Safe
Ragini Shinde		N/A	Eliminated	Wild Card
Kritwika Chakraborty		N/A	Eliminated
Tajinder Singh		N/A
Manav Heera		N/A
Vishnumaya Ramesh		N/A
Poushali Bhattacharya		N/A
Inayat Kaur Bajaj		N/A
Dilraj Singh		N/A
Abid Khan Langa		N/A
Haarshita Medhi		N/A
Sudhanshu Khare		N/A
Ayushman Chaudhary		N/A
Mansi Sisodiya		Elimimated
Prativa Dutta
Neha Dixit
Saloni Saaz
Radha Srivastava
Lakshya Mehta
Shuja Gowhar

Reception and ratings

Reception comments posted on SET's Instagram.

The season's premiere episode was reviewed by Pinkvilla, and Gujarat Samachar.

Television ratings and episode guide

Ep. No.	Original airdate	Event	Title	TVR	RCH	TS	DUR	SET India Weekly Rank	Overall Rank	Ref.
1	Saturday, 26 October 2024	Auditions 1	'Indian Idol Ke Stage Par Hone Ke Haqdaar'	1.3	3.7	34	93	1	15
2	Sunday, 27 October 2024	Auditions 2	'Agle Idol ki Talaash'
3	Saturday, 2 November 2024	Auditions 3	'Day 3 of Season 15 Auditions'	1.0	3.1	32	105	1	23
4	Sunday, 3 November 2024	Auditions 4	'Day 4 of Season 15 Auditions'
5	Saturday, 9 November 2024	Theatre Round 1	'Theatre Round - Day 1'	1.0	3.3	33	107	1	22
6	Sunday, 10 November 2024	Theatre Round 2	'Theatre Round - Day 2'
7	Saturday, 16 November 2024	Gala 1 - Night 1	"Grand Musical Explosion"	1.1	3.4	35	109	1	22
8	Sunday, 17 November 2024	Gala 1 - Night 2	"Grand Musical Explosion Part 2"
9	Saturday, 23 November 2024	Gala 2 - Night 1	"An Evening With Subhash Ghai"
10	Sunday, 24 November 2024	Gala 2 - Night 2	"A Night of Nostalgia with Mahesh Bhatt"

Production

The project head for the season was Chitra Langeh, and Akash Tiwari once again joining as the head of production. Pratyush Prakash was once again the writer of the series. Music guidance and music band were headed by Anand Sharma and Randeep Bhaskar. Aradhana Bhola, the managing director of FremantleIndia was once again the executive producer of the series. The season was directed by Saahil Chhabria.

External links

• Indian Idol on SonyLIV.